Love the concept but the execution is left wanting. Identifying when there is a nightly is not as easy as it should be, the changelog is finally working but the multiple links that say changelog is just plain confusing. and finally, but more frustratingly, downloading a nightly is impossible as of this date, and it looks like it will be confusing when it does work.

Love the concept but the execution is left wanting. Identifying when there is a nightly is not as easy as it should be, the changelog is finally working but the multiple links that say changelog is just plain confusing. and finally, but more frustratingly, downloading a nightly is impossible as of this date, and it looks like it will be confusing when it does work.

Well then let me describe the problem in more detail. If like me you want to look at the changelog first, and you scroll down a bit you see text that says These are nightlies so the link will take you to the download folder and the changelog link is listed. Down a bit further you see a link that says Changelog Here just below the warning about letting google restore your settings. That link points back to the changelog at Hash's blog site which is not up-to-date with the nightlies.

Scroll down toward the bottom of the page (just before the comments and you'll see two other links. The one that says Full Changelog Here is likely the second link you'd click on to see the changelog, but instead you get this odd popout dialog that I'm not sure what to make of. Finally, the link just above it, the one thats stuck oddly out toward the center of the page and says http://rombot.droidh...ngeLog-CM9.html is the actual changelog, though you'd have to look at the link carefully to devine that.

Then if you decide to download one of the nightlies and like me you've ignored and forgotten about the big bright blue download button near the top of the page, your likely to go to the list of previous versions to get the one you want. Its a bit of mystery meat navigation, but if you hover over the individual entries a download link will appear. Clicking on it gives you a page with three blue buttons that each only say Download (no indication of what or where) and the size of the download is listed as 0 bytes.

Now the big blue button at the top of the page is considerably better when it comes to the text on the download buttons, but it doesn't list which nightly, only (presumably) lets you grab only the most recent nightly, and it lists the sizes as 0 bytes. The statement below the big blue button and title says "[...] the link will take you to the download folder and the changelog link is listed" but none of the download links list the changelog.

Love the concept but the execution is left wanting. Identifying when there is a nightly is not as easy as it should be, the changelog is finally working but the multiple links that say changelog is just plain confusing. and finally, but more frustratingly, downloading a nightly is impossible as of this date, and it looks like it will be confusing when it does work.

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When I click on the link provided I get a list of files with dates of when the "nightly" was built.

Just wanted to say this rom is amazing. I use it as a daily driver. Everything works fine for me. Even my bluetooth headset connects fine, and I get music AND my calls.I can even change the songs and such from my headset.

I am about to flash this on my wife's phone..it looks very very sweet and I can't wait for her to get a taste of ICS..however on the droidhive.com download page for this I noticed in RED that GAPPS are not included..and then later on down in the whats working section..it shows that GAPPS are embedded (for now)..so my question is..will i still have to flash GAPPS right after I flash this nightly or not? ..or will it even matter? ..can I flash the updated GAPPS from the GAPPS download area anyway?

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